local. Forms: 1 téaʓ, 5– tye (also 7 tie). [OE. téaʓ, by Bosw.-Toller and Sweet held to be the same word as TIE sb. and TYE sb.1; but the connection of sense is unexplained. Bosw.-Toller also compares ON. teigr a strip of field or meadow-land, a close or paddock, which occurs freq. in names of meadows; but OE. téaʓ and ON. teigr are not phonetically related.] An enclosed piece of land, enclosure, close; also, an extensive common pasture; a large common.
832. Test. of Werhard, in Birch, Cart. Sax., I. 559. Mansionem … et clausulam quod Angli dicunt teaʓe, quæ pertinet ad prædictam mansionem.
853. Charter of Ætheluulf, ibid., II. 61. Circumcincta est … a meritie Bromteaʓ.
1407. in Essex Rev., XIII. 204. [A freehold called] Tye-lond.
1488. Maldon, Essex, Liber B., lf. 39 (MS.). All that lane till they came dovne to Lymborn-broke on to the tye & comon ayenst Brodehedis.
1670. Blount, Law Dict., Tigh or Teage … a Close or Enclosure, a Croft…. The word Tigh is still used in Kent in the same sense.
c. 1700. Churchw. Acc. St. Dunstan’s, Carterb. Woolvysty 3 acres of land lying within a cross.
1708. Lond. Gaz., No. 4453/4. Lost…, from the Tye in the Parish of Blackthorne…, a black Gelding.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Tye, an extensive common pasture. There are several tyes a few miles South of the central part of Suffolk; but in no other part of East Anglia. There are also some on the Northern border of Essex.
1884. Daily News, 23 Sept., 6/6. In almost every parish was a ‘heath,’ tie, common, or green, where the poor of the parish had certain rights.
1887. Parish & Shaw, Dict. Kentish Dial., Tye, Tie, an extensive common pasture. Such as Waldershare Tie.
